Serial Printer

[Albrecht Dreß]

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Hi Dan!

I have an old StyleWriter II running fine with a 7300... Just put the=20
following into /etc/printcap:

~~~snip here~~~
lp:\
         :sd=3D/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
         :mx#0:\
         :sh:\
         :lp=3D/dev/stylewriter:\
         :lf=3D/var/spool/lpd/lp.log:\
         :px#2975:\
         :py#4210:\
         :sf:\
         :rw:\
         :if=3D/usr/local/sbin/lp2stylewriter.sh:
~~~snip here~~~

Then make a symlink named /dev/stylewriter to /dev/ttyS0 (or 1, depends on=
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your machine), and use the attached file as input filter. Please note that=
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this is all configured for A4 paper (210 x 297 mm), so if you use letter,=
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you may have to change some settings.

Cheers,

	Albrecht.

Am 21.11.02 19:03:11 schrieb(en) Dan Koch:
> Hi folks,
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> Has anyone had any luck getting an Apple Stylewriter to work? The Printer=
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> Configuration GUI under YDL 2.3 seems to think that lpstyl is available=
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> for a LOCAL printer type, but I could not find the driver. So I downloade=
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> and installed the tar ball=20
> (http://homepage.mac.com/monroe/styl/stylewriter.tar.gz). I followed the=
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> instructions but can't make the direct print debug script work. I wanted=
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> to test that first before I configure the /etc/printcap file. I verifed=
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> that the printer works under MacOS 9.
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> Thanks,
> Dan
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> Dr. Daniel B. Koch
> Assoc Prof, Elec & Comp Engr (http://www.ece.utk.edu/~koch)
> Director, Applied Visualization Center (http://viz.utk.edu)
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#!/bin/bash
#
#
GS=/usr/bin/gs
GS_OPTS="-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4"
#
A2PS=/usr/local/bin/a2ps
A2PS_OPTS="-q -1 -E -M A4 --prologue=gray -o -"
#
LPSTYL=/usr/local/sbin/lpstyl
LPSTYL_OPTS="-p a4"
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
HEAD=`dd bs=4 count=1 2> /dev/null`

if [ "$HEAD" = "%!PS" ] ; then
    (echo -n $HEAD; cat -) |\
    $GS $GS_OPTS -sOutputFile=- - |\
    $LPSTYL $LPSTYL_OPTS
else
    unset fuser
    unset fhost 
    while [ -n "$1" ] ; do
	if [ "$1" = "-n" ] ; then
	    shift
	    fuser=$1
        fi
	if [ "$1" = "-h" ] ; then
	    shift
	    fhost=$1
	fi
	shift
    done
    (echo -n "$HEAD"; cat -) |\
    $A2PS --right-title="Printed by $fuser@$fhost" $A2PS_OPTS |\
    $GS $GS_OPTS -sOutputFile=- - |\
    $LPSTYL $LPSTYL_OPTS
fi


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